Have an Old Winchester?

[agsansoo]

Thanks Trap ...!
My grandfather bought it new. My dad (born in 1929), always remembered him having it.

[TRAP55]

That would have been a fairly expensive purchase back then. I show it selling for $58 in 1922. About that time, my grandfather use to plow fields from sunup to sundown for $1 a day!
Couple of historical facts, it served in WWI with the French, and used to kill Bonnie and Clyde.

[glilon]

Trap, I have a Model 94, 30-30, SN 24487XX. Thanks.

[TRAP55]

Trap, I have a Model 94, 30-30, SN 24487XX. Thanks.

Made in 1960, with 65,500 made that year.

[glilon]

Many thanks!

[Revhendo]

OK, I just bought my first one, a model 94. 2515082.
Thanks in advance.

[Croweman08]

Hey Trapp,

Check what got delivered to me today. Made in 1912

[Wyatt Burp]

My '92 Winchester .44-40 has a lot of special features. Someone got me a free "record check" (not a factory letter). The frame serial number says the gun was made in 1904, but it actually left the factory in 1911. Seems they sat on the pistol grip frame until a special order eventually happened then they pulled the frame out of the bin seven years later. Here's the Cody record check and the gun. All original.

[TRAP55]

OK, I just bought my first one, a model 94. 2515082.
Thanks in advance.

Jan. of 1962, 54500 made that year.

[TRAP55]

Hey Trapp,

Check what got delivered to me today. Made in 1912

You're a ****, one picture, and no details!

[TRAP55]

My '92 Winchester .44-40 has a lot of special features. Someone got me a free "record check" (not a factory letter). The frame serial number says the gun was made in 1904, but it actually left the factory in 1911. Seems they sat on the pistol grip frame until a special order eventually happened then they pulled the frame out of the bin seven years later. Here's the Cody record check and the gun. All original.

Wyatt, what I find unusual, and have never seen before, it was made in 1904, but wasn't received in the warehouse until 1911??? Where the hell was it for for 7 years?
Completed guns went straight to the warehouse for shipping, or after, waited a few months until sold, or to fill a shipment order. 7 freakin years to test fire and work out some bugs? Employee 5 finger discount until he got caught? That has to have a good story behind it.
Michael will want to catalog that one for his 1892 survey.

[Wyatt Burp]

Wyatt, what I find unusual, and have never seen before, it was made in 1904, but wasn't received in the warehouse until 1911??? Where the hell was it for for 7 years?
Completed guns went straight to the warehouse for shipping, or after, waited a few months until sold, or to fill a shipment order. 7 freakin years to test fire and work out some bugs? Employee 5 finger discount until he got caught? That has to have a good story behind it.
Michael will want to catalog that one for his 1892 survey.

The Winchester collector who let me use one of his "record checks" speculated that the pistol grip frame was made in 1904 and they probably just kept these stashed until a special order came in and then they would grab one. Are pistol gripped '92s so uncommon that a frame could sit there for seven years? Maybe they overlooked it all that time in inventory. I read that in the 30s I think, boxed brand new Volcanic rifles were found stashed away and Winchester sold them to employees at the front gate for fifty cents each. I think I know which book that's in.
BTW, another guy looked up the old cattle brand put on each side of the stock of this rifle and it's from a ranch that was three hours away from where I'm sitting now. Interesting that in the age of high velocity .30-30, 30-40, .30-06, etc. lever action Winchesters of the time someone really wanted a specific special ordered .44-40.

[Wyatt Burp]

Brand new Volcanic rifles in the box for 25 cents each!

This is from an old book called "Civil War Guns" by Edwards. Winchester found old unsold NIB Volcanic rifles in the warehouse somewhere in the 20s or 30s and sold them to employees for a quarter a piece. Not only pre Winchester, but pre Henry and with a S&W connection.

[Springfield45]

Hi, Trap55. I actually have two for you. Both are 1873's in .38-40 rifles. The one in my thread is 335630B. I also have a second one that was my grandfathers #278755B.

[theLBC]

1358##A - Model 88. pretty sure i know but...